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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What fragrance does Nick wear?

2. As which of the following does the novel gloss "putain"?

3. What does Jess eat for her first breakfast in Paris?

4. As which of the following does Jess label Benjamin?

5. What stylist does Sophie use?

Short Essay Questions

1. What relationship do Jess and Ben have?

2. What does Jess see in the first-floor apartment from the vantage of the hidden staircase?

3. What reasons does Ben note for feeling that “Jess could hardly have chosen a worse time to decide to come and stay” with him (1)?

4. What warning does the concierge offer Jess as she makes for her first meeting with Mendelson (89)?

5. What reasons are given for separating Ben and Jess via adoption?

6. During their first meeting, Jess and Mendelson both order a particular drink. What is it and what is notable about it?

7. Why does Nick note liking to have few decorations out?

8. What does Mimi note is Camille's usual clubbing practice?

9. How do Jacque and Sophie describe Ben to one another after Sophie's first meeting with Ben?

10. Why does Jess note smelling of vinegar when she arrives in Paris?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Much is made of the Parisian setting of the bulk of the novel. How might the novel have been different if set in another major world city, such as New York City, London, Los Angeles, Shanghai, or Rome? Why would it have been different in those ways?

Essay Topic 2

Overall, what is the most important theme of The Paris Apartment. What in the text indicates as much? How does it do so?

Essay Topic 3

What overall attitude towards intoxicants does the novel display? What in the text demonstrates that attitude, and how does it do so?

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